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Medium Term Plan – History
Phase – Years 1 and 2
Autumn 2 Autumn 1
Year 1
Year 2
Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
Civilisations Long Ago
1. The Ice Age
2. The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
3. The difference between pre-history
and written history
1. Mesopotamia - an ancient civilisation,
cuneiform writing and the Code of
Hammurabi
2. Ancient Egypt - Gods, Pharaohs and
Pyramids
3. The importance of the Nile River
Spring 2
Spring 1
The Romans
Kings, Queens and Rulers
1. The United Kingdom and the
formation of the Union Jack
2. The Magna Carta, King John and the
limits on his power
3. The role of our Queen
1. The Romans invade Britain 43AD
2. Roman settlements in Britain
3. Technological advances - roads,
sewage, public baths, water supply
systems, literacy and written records
Anglo-Saxons
1. Anglo-Saxon life
2. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
3. Alfred the Great
Summer 2
Summer 1
Vikings
Rights and Responsibilities
1. William and Mary, The Declaration of
Rights
2. Our Parliament
3. The role of our Prime Minister
1. Viking culture - known for exploration
and invasion
2. Viking invasion of Britain - settlements
including Jorvik (York) and Dublinia
(Dublin)
3. The Danelaw
Normans
1. Spread of Christianity in Britain before
the Norman Invasion
2. Battle of Stamford Bridge and the
Battle of Hastings
3. The Domesday Book
Medium Term Plan – History
Phase – Years 3 and 4
Autumn 2
Autumn 1
Year 3
Ancient Greece
1. Ancient Greek life - Sparta, Athens as a city
state, democracy in Athens
2. Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses
3. Ancient Greek thinkers - Socrates, Plato and
Aristotle
Rule of Law and Restraints on Royal Power
Year 4
The Stuarts
1. The Monarchs of the House of Stuart
2. The Union of the Crowns
3. The Gunpowder Plot
The Civil War
1. Henry II - his changes to the legal and judicial
systems
2. The Crusades - attempts to gain control of
Holy Land, Richard I of England and King
John
3. The Magna Carta - restraint on Royal power
1. Charles I
2. Roundheads and Cavaliers
3. Execution of Charles I and the
Commonwealth
Summer 2
Summer 1
Spring 2
Spring 1
Wars of the Roses and the Reformation
1. Conflicts between the Houses of Lancaster
and York
2. The Princes in the Tower (Edward V and his
brother Richard)
3. The Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry Tudor, of
Lancastrian descent, defeats Richard II,
marries Elizabeth of York to end the wars and
unite the two houses
The Elizabethan Era
1. Elizabeth I - The final Tudor monarch
2. Spanish Armada
3. Exploration and Culture - Sir Francis Drake, Sir
Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare
Plague and Fire
1. The Great Plague
2. The Great Fire of London
3. Christopher Wren and the rebuilding of
London
The Founding of Rome and The Punic Wars
1. The Legend of Romulus and Remus
2. The Republic - senate, patricians, plebeians
3. The Punic Wars - Hannibal and his elephants
Julius Caesar
India, China and Japan
1. India - Indus and Ganges Rivers, Hinduism,
Buddhism
2. China - Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, Confucius,
invention of paper and silk, Chinese New
Year
3. Japan – islands, major cities, origami,
kimonos, feudal Japan, the Samurai
1. Caesar - The Dictator of Rome
2. Cleopatra
3. Rome after Caesar
Ancient Rome and The Roman Empire
1. Life in the Roman Empire - The Forum, The
Colosseum, Roads, Bridges, Aqueducts
2. Mount Vesuvius - The Destruction of Pompeii
3. The fall of Rome - the legend of Nero fiddling
(playing the Violin) as Rome burns
Medium Term Plan – History
Year 6
The Rise of Islam
The American Civil War
Autumn 1
1. The Prophet Muhammad, The Qur’an, Mecca,
Mosques
2. The Development of Islamic civilisation, science
and maths (Arabic numerals), centres of art and
learning such as Cordoba in Spain
3. Conflicts between Christians and Muslims - the
Holy Land, the Crusades, Saladin and Richard the
Lionheart
1. Causes - industrial North and agricultural South,
slavery, election of Lincoln as president
2. Conflicts - Yankees (representing the union), rebels
(representing the confederacy), soldiers, The
Emancipation Proclamation, Richmond
(confederate capital) falls to the unionist forces
3. Consequences - assassination of Lincoln,
reconstruction of the union, end of slavery
The Industrial Revolution
The Creation of Great Britain
1. Technology - steam engines, canals, the invention
of the power loom
2. Social changes - poor conditions in factories and
collieries, children working in dangerous
conditions, unions
3. Urbanisation - mechanisation of agriculture led to
people moving to cities to seek work, poor housing
conditions, cholera outbreaks
Spring 1
Year 5
Autumn 2
Phase – Years 5 and 6
1. The Act of the Union
2. George I from Hanover in Germany
3. Robert Walpole (the first Prime Minister)
The Birth of the British Empire
1. Global trade
2. India - East India Company
3. The Royal Navy and the life of a sailor - scurvy,
weevils, punishments
Spring 2
The American War of Independence
1. The Boston Tea Party - British taxes with no
representation
2. Declaration of Independence - life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness
3. Creation of the USA with George Washington as
President
Social Reform
1. The Luddites - resistance to mechanisation
2. The Factory Act 1833 - no child workers under the
age of nine, compulsory hours of schooling;
factory inspectors to enforce the law
3. The Great Exhibition - Crystal Palace
Political Reform
1. Great Reform Act 1832 - increased the entitlement
to vote from 3% of the population to 5%, small but
significant change
2. Ireland as a British colony - The Potato Famine
3. Irish Independence
Summer 2
Summer 1
The British Empire
The French Revolution
1. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at Versailles - ‘Let
them eat cake’
2. The storming of the Bastille
3. King and Queen beheaded and France becomes
a republic (no monarchy)
1. The growth of the British Empire around the world
2. The Indian Mutiny 1857 - Indian soldiers in the British
army rebelled against insensitivity to their religious
customs and this turned into a nationwide
rebellion against British rule
3. The scramble for Africa - the Boer War, positive
and negative aspects of the British Empire
The Victorian Age
The Abolition of Slavery
1. The trading of slaves from Africa to the Americas
2. Slave transportation - slave ships
3. The campaign for the abolition of slavery
1. Coronation of Queen Victoria
2. Inventions during the Victorian Age - the
telephone, films, the aeroplane
3. Life in the Victorian Age - schools, homes and the
workplace